Light-fingered
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Light-fingered is an adjective meaning Having quick, light and nimble fingers.
Meaning
Having quick, light and nimble fingers.
More Meanings
- (figuratively) Having nimble fingers, especially for stealing or picking pockets (pickpocketing), given to thievery or shoplifting.
- simple past and past participle of light-finger
Example Sentences
There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; […] yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
Word Forms
- lighter-fingered
- lightest-fingered
- lightfingered
Synonyms for light-fingered
Depending on context, synonyms include furacious, sticky-fingered, theftuous, thievish, adroit, nimble-fingered.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include adroit, nimble-fingered, light-handed, lighthanded, light-footed, light-legged.
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